Paul Belanger

Background

Mr. Paul Belanger has been a partner of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP since 1994. Mr. Belanger practices in the Corporate Law and Securities Groups in the Toronto office. His practice emphasizes the business, affairs and regulation of financial institutions, including life and property and casualty insurance companies, commercial banks, trust and loan companies, and other regulated and unregulated providers of financial services. He is involved in all aspects of acquisitions, ... divestitures, reorganizations and joint ventures involving financial service providers, as well as product development and distribution matters, including internet banking and all aspects of the business of insurance. He also advises on all manner of regulatory and structuring issues for financial service providers, including: Ownership structures, Business powers, Permitted investments and related structures in the context of consolidated supervision, corporate governance, and risk management policies and systems, inter-company agreements, cross-border structuring and delivery of services, outsourcing agreements, implementation of BIS standards for commercial banks, referral arrangements, money-laundering legislation, and mortgage lender and broker licensing matters. He serves as a Director of FCT Insurance Company Limited, a federal insurance company. He serves as a Director of SHOP.CA Network Inc. Mr. Belanger is recognized as most frequently recommended in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2010 in the area of banking law and is ranked in Band 1 in Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business 2010 in the areas of banking and finance for Canada. He is also recognized in the 2009 editions of Legal Media Group's Guide to the World’s Leading Banking Lawyers and Guide to the World’s Leading Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers. In The Best Lawyers in Canada (2010 and 2011 editions), he was voted by his peers as one of the leading lawyers in Canada in the area of banking law (regulatory). He is also included in the new Who’s Who Legal: Canada 2010. In 2002, Mr. Belanger was named one of Canada's "Top 40 Under 40" by Lexpert, a magazine for lawyers, in Lexpert’s first such report. From 1991 to 1992, he spent 18 months seconded to the financial institutions division of the federal government’s Department of Finance, where he was engaged in the development and implementation of Canadian financial sector reform policy, including the regulation of institutions themselves, networking and distribution arrangements, and ownership policy.

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